Content on Taxes:

Cutting benefits not best answer

January 19, 2011

Cut the government. The public sector is bloated. The sky is falling. Thanks Chicken Little, I mean Chris Christie, for the lovely words.

From the SGA

February 1, 2010

As students at Virginia Tech, our tuition is expected to rise around 9 percent a year for the next four years.

Virginia drug policies illogical

October 22, 2009

Drug incarcerations use our tax money

Column: Green policies need to be fiscally responsible as well

September 29, 2009

In the 20th century, English economist A.C. Pigou developed a provocative concept that would change economic thinking and the world. This new idea, inspired by his Cambridge colleague and mentor Alfred Marshall, was the theory of externalities. In his boo

Kaine aims to hike taxes to save Medicaid

February 2, 2009

Hospitals and health care organizations say the cuts to Virginia's Medicaid funds could result in layoffs and eventually a drop in patient care throughout the state.

Editorial: We should give voters some credit when it comes to taxes

November 14, 2008

One of the apparently more curious features of recent elections in this country has been what might be called the economic masochism of voters.

Letter: Let's talk seriously about issues facing our nation

November 10, 2008

The 2008 election has been decided and the American people have chosen Barack Obama to be the next president of the United States. However, there are still those who want to continue to paint him as a foreign object with "un-American" ideas. Let's cut to

In Carilion-Tech medical school, tax questions abound

September 12, 2008

The new medical school collaboration between Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic is set to break ground later this month, though questions regarding the building's financing remain largely unanswered.